Railway car wheel truck



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' RAILWAY cm WHEEL TRUCK Filed April 10, l945 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 JIQZZJamfi/V 6 41110 B I M ww mfi In uen tor Patented July 16, 1946RAILWAY CAR WHEEL TRUCK William P. McCalllck, El Paso, Tex., assignor offifteen per cent to Raul M. Ruiz, El Paso, Tex.

Application April 10, 1945, Serial No. 587,476

1 This invention relates to railway rolling stock and has for its objectto provide a one man device for handling and moving railway car wheels.

Another object of the invention is to provide a truck having means forpicking up a car wheel.

A further object of the invention is to provide a wheeled lever having atongue for projecting through the hub of a car wheel and a plate uponwhich the tongue is adapted to place the wheel.

Other features and advantages will become more readily apparent from thefollowing description and the accompanying illustrative drawings inwhich:

Figure 1 is an elevational view of my truck,

Figure 2 is a similar view shown in changed position,

Figure 3 is an end elevation of the truck, Figures 4 and 5 areelevational views illustrating the application of the invention,

Figure 6 is a plan view, one member removed,

5 Claims. (Cl. 214-654) Figure 7 is a detail rear view of a supportingplate, and,

Figure 8 is an edge view thereof.

In the accompanying drawings as above enumerated and in the followingspecification, like characters of reference indicate like partsthroughout and in which l0, indicates my car wheel truck, which consistsof a tubular lever II, which at its lower end [2, is split and spread toform opposing bearings l3 and M, for supporting a shaft 15, upon whichis mounted wheels l6 and H. The lower end of the tube l2 adjacent thebearings I3 and I4 is bent back upon itself and is then bent out atright-angles as at 20, at

substantially the same distance from the tread 2 I, of the wheels l6 andI1, as is the distance from the tread 22, of a car wheel 23, to its hubopening 24 (shown dotted in Figure 4 of the drawings). A disk like plate25, having its lower end 26, squared off, and a central opening 21, isprovided with right-angularly disposed bearing members 28 and 29,projecting from the opposite sides of the said opening on the rearsurface thereof, is through bores'30, mounted upon said shaft I5,inwardly of the wheels [6 and H, the tongue or terminal 20, of saidlever l I, projecting through the opening 21, in said member 25, wherebythe truck may be wheeled to the face of a car wheel and its tongue 20,projected through the hub of the wheel, then upon bearing down upon thehandle bar 3|, at the terminal 32', of the member II, the truck may beeasily rotated upon its axle l5, to raise the tongue 20, lifting the carwheel 23, therewith and shifting its inward to seat upon the disk plate25, whereupon its may be easily 2 transported to the place where rollingstock is be ing assembled. Due to the weight of car wheels,

it ordinarily takes two or more men to handle them, but with my abovedescribed truck I find that job can very easily and expeditiously bedone by one man. When it is understood that in the manufacture of carwheels they are lined up in storage space face to face upon the rims,therefore it will readily be seen that with my truck they may be easilypicked up by the truck and moved to where needed. Due to the straightedge 26, of disk 25, the truck may be stood in vertical position and dueto the bend 33, in the member 1 I, the handle bar 3|, is somewhatlowered and to which pressure may be now applied.

It is thought that persons skilled in the art to which the inventionrelates will be able to obtain a clear understanding of the inventionafter considering the description in connection with the drawings.Therefore, a more lengthy description is regarded as unnecessary. I

Minor changes in shape, sizeand rearrangement of details and parts suchas come within the purview of the invention claimed may be resorted to,in actual practice, if desired.

Having now described my invention that which I claim as new and desireto procure by Letters Patent is:

1. A truck for handling car wheels consisting of a, lever having itslower end bent and turned toward itself, said bend forming a fulcrumsupport, a shaft carried by the support and forming said fulcrum, wheelson said shaft and a wheel bearing plate supported on said shaft, saidturned portion forming an outwardly extending tongue, adapted to fit andproject into the hub of the wheel, and said plate being substantiallythe diameter of a car wheel and provided with a straight lower edge.

2. A truck for handling car wheels consisting of a lever having itslower and bent and turned toward itself, said bend forming a fulcrumsupport, a shaft carried by the support and forming said fulcrum, wheelson said shaft and a wheel bearing plate supported on said shaft, saidturned portion forming an outwardly extending tongue adapted to fit andproject into the hub of the wheel.

3. A truck for handling car wheels consisting of a lever having itslower end bent and turned toward itself, said bend forming a fulcrumsupport, a shaft carried by the'support and forming said fulcrum, wheelson said shaft and a wheel bearing plate supported on said shaft, andsaid 3 turned portion formingan outwardly extending tongue; I I

4. A lever having one and bent upon itself, then turned outto form alift, wheels for supporting the same, and a plate having three pointsuspension mounted on the lift adapted to receive and hold a car wheelin vertical position.

, '5. A truck for handling car wheels comprising a lever having itslower end bent and tumed toward itself to form a shaft bearing, a shaftand wheels on the ends of said shaft.

P. MoCAILICK.

